by Edward Abbey
First published 1988
Ex-soldier George Hayduke returns home to find his beloved desert under threat from strip miners, loggers, and dam builders. Teaming up with a motley crew of activists - a feminist saboteur, a wilderness guide, and a renegade doctor - Hayduke wages an escalating campaign of guerilla tactics and outrageous civil disobedience to fight the forces of "progress" and protect the natural world. In this comedic tale of destructive mayhem, the unlikely Monkey Wrench Gang takes a defiant stand for the vanishing wilderness.
Genres: american-fiction, adventure, environmental-science, activism
Vibes: suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, unlikely-heroes
Setting: Southwestern States
352 pages · Hardcover · Lippincott
Content warnings: violence